Sandy is a school nurse who is going to a high school to educate a group of juniors and seniors on HIV today. Included in her seminar for this group of high school students, she will discuss the following:
a. How is HIV transmitted?
b. How to prevent the spread to others?
c. What is HIV?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Transmission by four body fluids: blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk
May be in saliva, tears, and conjunctiva secretions; not found in urine, stool, vomit, or sweat
b. Use of condom for sexual activity, decrease use of multiple partners, have mutually monogamous relationship with uninfected partner or abstain from intercourse, abstain from IV drugs, use new needles and syringes for each IV drug injections, and refrain from donating blood in high-risk areas or if engaged in high-risk behaviors
Report any needle stick if you work in a healthcare setting.
c. Two subtypes: HIV-1 and HIV-2; HIV-1 mutates easily and frequently.
HIV-2 is less transmittable and has longer interval between HIV and AIDS than HIV-1.
• Genetically incomplete, attacks host cells, duplicates by being a parasite to the helper T cells
• Alters helper T cell's genetic code, making more viral particles
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